Mediation as a Tool to Avoid Strikes : Case Study in Poland

Dr. Leszek Cichob Aziñski; Dr. Sidney Soares Filho

doi:https://doi.org/10.69711/sharda.ijmir.v7i2.1803

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Mediation as a Tool to Avoid Strikes : Case Study in Poland

Leszek Cichob Aziñski, Sidney Soares Filho

https://doi.org/10.69711/sharda.ijmir.v7i2.1803

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1. * Leszek Cichob Aziñski, Czêstochowa University of Technology (CUT), Poland (leszekcicholazinski@wz.pcz.pl)

2. Sidney Soares Filho, Universidade de Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Brazil (sidney@unifor.br)

The purpose of this study is to investigate if mediation is an effective tool to avoid strikes. Mediation is a method of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). It can be applied to solve different types of conflicts, such as disputes about Civil, Family, Labour, Contractual and sometimes Criminal Law. Poland was chosen to analyze this investigation, because mediation is an obligatory stagy before employees are allowed by the law to make a strike in that country. This research shows that first country had 311 strikes between the years 2009 and 2016 (absolute numbers) and the number of mediations with agreements’ results is approximately 1,31 times bigger than mediation without agreements between the years 1994 and 2017. These numbers can show that mediation may be helpful as a tool to avoid the strikes.

Keywords

Mediation; Strikes; Alternative dispute resolution; Collective disputes; Labor law. Mediation in collective disputes

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